Jefferson Himself Author:Bernard Mayo The story of Thomas Jefferson, told in his own words, presents an intimate and rounded portrait of a great and many-sided American. The materials for the book have been his voluminous writings, especially his thousands of letters written (as he said) 'in the warmth and freshness of fact and feeling' and forming 'the only full and gen... more »uine journal' of his life.
These have been woven into a narrative account of the man, of his private and public life, his varied interests and achievements. Filled with his 'reflections on the things which have been passing,' it is an eye-witness account of the birth and first half-century of the American nation, written by Jefferson himself.« less